I find perverse pleasure in finding a way to force Google to Sit, Stay, Rollover, and do the tricks I want it to do rather than what it decides. The sense of power is of course a fabricated illusion, but still, the effect is robustly divine. After some explanation of my current approach, creating a […]
This moment is familiar. A series of thoughts having swirled around the brain space, whispering, there is something here to write about. The thoughts often lack a destination, so this is not writing with a planned plot, but one that may emerge. The other thoughts the first one keeps bumping into is the sense that […]
I’m grudgingly accepting that for most people the work of maintaining their own domain and web sites is too much. They’ve substacked to email newsletters, medium-ed over to hosted writing places, knuckled in to LinkedIn, or hoist their thoughts as tweeted threads. It’s not game over, and plenty of folks are still ending their own […]
Of course the WordPress platform (it’s right under the hood hear) can do much with photos. It’s always been a thing I have loved about the platform is that it lends itself to writing with, surrounded by media, not just rovers of text. But I’ve not opened this WordPress post in my WordPress blog to […]
For whatever neurocognitive reason ideas just linger on the periphery of my mind, fading in, fading out, but maybe just waiting for the right moment. As typical, I start writing the backstory and the process and the development of something I made, then bunches of code tossed in, before you even see it. In the […]
Just using those words in the title sends the warning flag that this is a grey bearded old man of the internet post. So the idea of connecting together independent bits of the web to do something useful might by yelling at a cloud (or The Cloud), but damnit, it all works for me. Sit […]
Like some shiny dress shoes, my SPLOT themes just got a wee bit of polish based on some needs others had. I also made an effort to make sure the three main ones TRU Writer, TRU Collector, and SPLOTbox all got the same shine. This also reinforces what has been true since the first SPLOTs […]
While my stint for BCcampus operating the H5P Kitchen has passed, I am still very interested in H5P as an open education platform. I did a short open discussion (aka free form) this week for Simon Fraser University, and spied a new H5P project over at MERLOT and was interested to see an H5P Studio […]
I’m no guru on web accessibility, most of my projects likely will fail to meet the standards. But I am more interested in the small things we can and ought to do to at least try better. Somehow in the last year that has popped up for me a few times looking at how Twitter […]
I will say up front that my reach for a Western Movie metaphor will fall flat and two short of the original. But look at the lovely horses, beamed directly from the Icelandverse. Last week I lobbed a presentation for the Open Publishing Fest — It Goes SPLOT! TRU Writer as an open, shared, privacy […]
